Shape

352 III Using It to Design
Let’s see how this works in terms of specific schemas and rules. First there’s the
main rectangular block
and then, just behind it, a single row of nine spaces
The central space in the row and the twin flanking spaces abut the main block, but the
row and the block must be separate structures. This is the only way to ensure that there
are enfilades—otherwise, windows and doors wouldn’t make any sense. They would
look like this
in a haphazard arrangement where not everything aligns as it should. My schemas
don’t allow for this, and Palladio simply wouldn’t do it.
Now, it’s easy to make plans. The back building is merely a symmetric row of
rectangles—not a typical Palladian room layout, yet one nonetheless with a wall inflection
and a horizontal enfilade—and the front building is in my catalogue of threeby-three
room layouts, here as a plan with the correct dimensions